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Teaching French as a Foreign Language

Code: 44318 ECTS Credits: 15
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
4310486 Teaching in Secondary Schools, Vocational Training and Language Centres OT 0

Contact

Name:
Marilisa Birello
Email:
marilisa.birello@uab.cat

Teachers

Julia Llompart Esbert

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

Those set by the Department of Education, Generalitat de Catalunya.


Objectives and Contextualisation

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify the basic principles of the language policies that inspire the curriculum of foreign languages in Catalonia.
  • Apply the theoretical bases and the current didactic principles to teach French as a foreign language.
  • Use relevant criteria to select, adapt and / or create materials to learn French in multilingual environaments and with heterogeneous groups.
  • Design and select materials, tasks and projects suitable for specific groups of learners, according to the principles established in the curriculum of French for secondary education and for language schools (EOI).
  • Analyse one's use of French as a tool to teach and learn.
  • Conduct an action research.

Competences

  • "Design and conduct formal and no-formal activities that help make the center a place of participation and culture in the environment where it is located; develop the functions of mentoring and guiding students in a collaborative and coordinated manner; participate in the evaluation, research and innovation in teaching and learning"
  • "Determine the curriculum that will be implanted in a school participating in the collective planning thereof; develop and implement both group and personalized teaching methodologies adapted to the diversity of students."
  • Acquire strategies to encourage student effort and enhance their capacity to learn by himself and others, and develop thinking skills and decision-making to facilitate autonomy, confidence and personal initiative.
  • Communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally.
  • Design and develop learning spaces with special attention to equity, education and emotional values, equal rights and opportunities for men and women, civic education and respect for human rights that facilitate life in society, decision making and building a sustainable future.
  • Generate innovative and competitive professional activities and research.
  • Interpret the different educational needs of students in order to propose the most appropriate educational activities.
  • Know the curricular content of the matters relating to the appropriate teaching specialization and the body of didactic knowledge around the respective teaching and learning.
  • Make effective use of integrated information and communications technology.
  • Own the learning skills necessary to carry out continuous training, both in content and teaching specialty, as in the general aspects of teaching.
  • Plan, develop and evaluate the teaching and learning process enhancing educational processes that facilitate the acquisition of the competences of the respective teachings, based on the level and previous training of students as well as the orientation of the same, both individually and in collaboration with other teachers and school professionals
  • Search, obtain, process and communicate information (oral, printed, audiovisual, digital or multimedia), transform it into knowledge and apply it in the teaching and learning in their own areas of specialization.
  • know the processes of interaction and communication in the classroom, mastering social skills and abilities necessary to encourage learning and coexistence in the classroom, and address problems of discipline and conflict resolution.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Communicate effectively, both verbally and non-verbally.
  2. Create a climate that facilitates interaction and values the contributions of students to promote the learning of Catalan and Spanish in the classroom.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge and apply innovative teaching proposals in the field of French.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge of French language curricula of Compulsory Secondary Education, the high school and the schools of languages.
  5. Demonstrate knowledge of contexts and situations in which it is used and applies the French language in secondary education and in language schools, underlining its functional character.
  6. Demonstrate knowledge of cultural and educational value of the French language and contents of the discipline taught in compulsory secondary education, in high school and schools of languages and integrate this content in the framework of science and culture.
  7. Demonstrate knowledge of the history and recent developments of the French language, and his perspectives to convey a dynamic view of the same.
  8. Demonstrate knowledge of the theoretical and practical developments in teaching and learning of the French language.
  9. Design and develop learning spaces with special attention to equity, education and emotional values, equal rights and opportunities between men and women, civic education and human rights that facilitate life in society, decisions and building a sustainable future.
  10. Generate innovative and competitive proposals for research and professional activities.
  11. Identify problems regarding the teaching and learning of the French language and propose possible alternatives and solutions.
  12. Interpret the different educational needs of students in order to propose the most appropriate educational activities.
  13. Know the processes of interaction and communication in the classroom, mastering social skills and abilities necessary to encourage learning and coexistence in the classroom, addressing issues of discipline and conflict resolution.
  14. Possess learning skills necessary to carry out continuous training in both content and didactics of French Language, as well as general aspects of teaching.
  15. Search, obtain, process and communicate information (oral, printed, audiovisual, digital or multimedia) to transform it into knowledge and apply it in the teaching-learning materials specific to the specialization studied.
  16. Select, use and develop resources for the teaching of French language.
  17. Transform the French language curricula in sequences of learning activities and work programs.
  18. Understand evaluation as an instrument of regulation and stimulus efforts, and meet and develop strategies and techniques for assessing of French language learning.
  19. Use information and communications technology and integrate them into the teaching and learning of the French language.

Content

Block 1: Teaching and learning French as a foreign language (9 ECTS) - in Catalan and French

  • The foreign language curriculum of the ESO, the baccalaureate and the EOI
  • Teaching proposals and resources to develop learners' communicative competence in French
  • The management of communication, space and time in the French classroom
  • Assessment and evaluation in the French classroom
  • Content and Language Integrated Syllabi

Block 2: Teaching innovation and educational research in the field of French didactics (6 ECTS) - in Catalan and French

  • Planning syllabi, courses and lessons
  • Teachers as researchers in the classroom
  • Introduction to action research
  • Life-long learning programmes

Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Face-to-face learning (lectures, discussion of case studies, analysis of classroom vignettes, etc.) 97.5 3.9 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 15, 18, 19
Type: Supervised      
Individual or group tutorials 75 3 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19
Type: Autonomous      
Self-directed non face-to-face activities 202.5 8.1 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19

Face-to-face sessions will combine lectures with debates, oral presentations, storytelling and creative and reflective activities carried out in pairs or small groups, etc. Students will be expected to take an active role in all the sessions, use French as the language of communication in the classroom and elaborate all assessment tasks in this language.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Teaching and learning French as a foreign language 60% 0 0 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18
Teaching innovation and educational research 40% 0 0 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19

In order to pass this module, the following requirements must be met:

  • Obtain an APT in French, which requires showing efficient, fluent and appropriate use (phonetics, grammar, lexis, spelling, textual organisation, etc.) of the French language (minimum level C2.1 of the MECR).
  • Attend and actively participate in at least 80% of the face-to-face sessions, including lectures and common workshops with other specialisations.
  • Pass ALL the evaluation tasks of the course.
  • Pass the two blocks of content that make up the subject.

Continuous assessment

The continuous assessment consists of the following tests and activities:

  • didacticising a song. Activity in pairs. 20% of the overall mark
  • adaptation of a unit from the textbook. Individual activity. 30% of the overall mark
  • creation of a rubric for the class. Individual activity. 20% of the overall mark.
  • microteaching. Individual activity. 30% of the overall mark.

The results of the tests will be published on the virtual campus within a maximum of 20 working days after delivery. The student will have 5 days to request a review of the tests from the date of publication.

The recovery of the failed assignments will take place on May 23rd. The maximum grade for the recovery will be 5.

 

If a student does not attend a minimum of 80% of the sessions (applicable to each block), he/she will fail the module and will have to sit the recovery exam.

The delivery of work will be done in the moodle. Papers handed in with incorrect formats, not including the name of the authors or handed in after the deadline will not be accepted. Students are responsible for ensuring that the format of the files is compatible with the delivery in the moodle.

In order to be assessed, studentsmust attend the sessions and participate proactively in class, having a positive general attitude and an appropriate attitudeto the context. Unpunctuality and inappropriate use of the cell phone will be perceived as disrespectful to the learning community and may cast doubt on the student's suitability for promotion to future teacher.

Single assessment

Students who opt for a single assessment have to hand in or take the following tests on 9th May:

  • Written test on the content of the subject. 40%
  • Hand in the design of a writing task, a written comprehension task, an oral comprehension task, and an oral task. 40%
  • Oral interview. 20%

In order to pass the course, it is necessary to have hand in or taken all the assessment tasks and to haveobtained a minimum score of 5 in each assessment task. In the event of failing any of the single assessment tasks, the student may sit the retake if he/she has obtained a minimum mark of 3.5 in that task. The for single assessment students will take place on 23rd May and will consist of a synthesis test.

Students who have taken the single assessment will not receive any assessment or marks for the continuous assessment activities carried out during the course. The delivery will be unique and will take place on a single day.

The final mark will be obtained from the weighted median of the final mark of each content block: block 1 (60%); block 2 (40%).

According to UAB regulations, plagiarism or copying of any work will be penalized with a 0 as a qualification, losing the possibility of recovering it, whether it is an individual or group work (in this case, all members of the group will have a 0). If, during the performance of individual work in class, the teacher considers that a student is trying to copy or discovers some type of document or device not authorized by the teaching staff,the same will be graded with a 0, with no recovery option


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Software

Not special software is needed.


Language list

Information on the teaching languages can be checked on the CONTENTS section of the guide.